Geoff Bennett: For more on Pope Leo XIV and what he means for both the church and for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, we turn now to two guests, both in Rome.

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As Pope Leo XIV makes history as the first American-born pontiff, many are wondering what this means for the future of the Catholic Church and the political relationships with the United States.

I met the future Pope Leo XIV in October 2012, a day after the end of the synod on the New Evangelization. The focus of that synod, highly characteristic of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, has been named Pope Leo XIV, marking the first time an American has been chosen as the leader of the Catholic Church.

As a boy growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the future Pope Leo XIV did not pretend to be a cowboy or a bank robber. Instead, he liked to play priest, according to his eldest brother, Louis Prevost.